The 2 Best The Run-Up Podcast Episodes
1) The Grocery Bills That Could Decide the Election
This election, like a lot of elections before it, may come down to which candidate voters think might help them with their grocery bills and housing costs — the essential stuff of everyday economics. ...Show More
2) The Grass Roots, Part 2
This moment in politics will be defined by shifts at the grass-roots level. It wasn’t long ago that Democrats used to brag about the coalition they had built — full of young people, minority voters an...Show More
3) What Democrats Think Went Wrong
A year ago, Astead took “The Run-Up” listeners home for Thanksgiving. Specifically, he convened a focus group of family and friends to talk about the election and the question of Black people’s chang...Show More
4) The Man in Charge of Trump’s Border Policy
President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees and major appointments — which have arrived quickly in the days since he won the election — are more than just a list of allies. The roster is a window into ho...Show More
5) One Voter to Understand Trump’s Win
For more than two years, we’ve been asking pretty much everyone we meet a version of the same question: Who are you going to vote for and why? And on Wednesday morning, we had the answer to that que...Show More
6) A Final Dispatch From America’s Bellwether
For months now, “The Run-Up” has been traveling around the country talking with people, trying to ensure that when today came, whatever happened wouldn’t feel like a surprise. So as people go to the ...Show More
7) Tailgating in Wisconsin With the Bros Trump Needs
One phenomenon that’s been getting a lot of attention during this election is the growing gender gap among young people. Young men are leaning right, and young women are moving left. In recent natio...Show More
8) In Other News, Who Will Control Congress?
For most of this year, we’ve been focused on the race for president, the messages coming from both parties’ nominees and their reception among voters. But that’s not all that’s on the ballot this Nov...Show More
9) All Eyes on Pennsylvania
There’s no state more likely to tip the election than Pennsylvania. It has the most electoral votes of any swing state, with 19, and its flip from red to blue in 2020 helped secure the win for Joe Bi...Show More
10) It Really Does Feel Close in North Carolina
Here’s what makes North Carolina, with its 16 Electoral College votes, unique among the battlegrounds this year. Come election night, it will be one of the first of the closely fought states where th...Show More